reports of a major explosion having rocks in all capital all slow one person is reported to be dead and at least eight injured witnesses saying that dozens are actually lying in the streets covered in blood however prime minister jens stoltenberg is said to be safe and of course this explosion did take place just outside his building but preliminary reports suggest that it was a car bomb but some sources as say the explosion took place inside the building of norway's biggest tabloid newspapers the deal with the blast was so powerful that it smashed all of the windows in the seventeen story building with this is a saying so the nearby oil ministry building has court fire would fix main care seemed to becoming a problem the bank. of course keep you updated on this story as we continue to get

the details here at r.t. . major u.s. credit agency says it will downgrade the greek debt to default status as a result of the second bailout for the country the plan agreed by e.u. leaders includes both government and private loans totaling around a hundred and fifty billion euros well the move has boosted the single currency for now but critics say it's only plunging the struggling there is a into an even deeper debt hole autist under bush i'll have the details now from brussels. they're putting a brave face on it question remains how much can we believe what they are saying the germans have come out jungle medical samus is a significant step this. is very good for europe as a whole good for germany and that is. historic duty she said. greece now we've seen that. being convinced that europe will emerge stronger from

this crisis. there was no. solution to this and it will take successive difficult and different steps to solve the crisis european stock markets have rallied on the news that is the usual reaction. they lost around the week before slipping a. pledge as you say to work to bring greece is the level to default is the strengthening here for a new european credit rating agency into the real problem of course is that it doesn't tackle the issue of the unsustainable some call it that. euro zone states so greece people protesting against the really very painful cuts that are being imposed on it just last week it's really very difficult. which has been met with fury by the italian people who are threatening all sorts of very difficult very conventional reaction from them and told to go from is that to quit when he.

proposes which are rejected by that country's parliament and there are fears that spain will be next so a lot of concerns around europe but the experts here are stressing that the rest of the world is continue to go on and countries like india china even latin america will continue perhaps to take the growth of the world economy on its own shoulders and really help to compensate for the problems here in europe something that is really being stressed increasingly by analysts here in brussels. founder of the gloom boom and doom report he's now in toyland says that failure of the european economy would not mean the end of the financial world yes there are big markets but these are markets that are not growing the right degree where emerging economies are growing very rapidly export markets are through trees like you're not going to

american country some crazy rush or and all course also are prepared to move greece and so i don't think crises in europe would be results through. asian region. or always the case know what you think about all stories we're covering the question we're asking today is who wins most from the year a crisis well right now here's how pinions divided on the topic the majority of us sure it will be george soros and his financial cronies will reap the rewards of the troubles while the fish if you believe china will cash in by buying up outrageously cheap assets now more of you think this hour that the u.s. wins most with demand for its bonds climbing higher than ever and only three percent think that the european debt is themselves come out on top as they can now get away with paying less will do log on to alter dot com to have yourself.

media mogul rupert murdoch seems to have come through the u.k. parliamentary hearings on the phone hacking scandal relatively unscathed but he now faces legal challenges in the u.s. with a frenzy over his employees on ethical behavior is taking a different turn many americans say the embattled media empire has done nothing more than affect national institutes that no longer valued people's privacy he's gone it's just you can has the story. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch media empire rages on public and political fury has mainly focused on ruthless tabloids out of control prepared to invade people's private lives and even the dad to get the story but some say in this day and age the whole concept of privacy is falling apart and in the u.s. more rapidly than elsewhere every time you tap on your cell or click on google or use your mail service everybody's sort of just clicks through that you agree to our

terms and conditions well those terms and conditions are very very heavily weighted against you and your privacy interests and we see breaches of privacy happening by corporations all across america all across the world really in every sector surveillance is rampant but really this is all a microcosm of the biggest surveille are all which is the state there's little americans can do with the state having sweeping access to their private information access that followed the nine eleven terrorist attacks under a new law known as the patriot act asana law his privacy was taken away from him in two thousand and two when he was detained by the f.b.i. for absolutely no reason he says and scrutinized for months without charge he's response for nine years he has voluntarily documented nearly every waking hour of his life on the web he has subsequently even turned it into a form of art sealed eyeless that i've used so you know that over here for example

you know that on sunday november twenty fourth of two thousand and seven i've used this term i went grocery shopping at safeway over there on october seventeenth i got gas over here he posts copies of every debit card transaction so you can see what he bought where and when a g.p.s. device in his pocket reports his realtime physical location on a map and this is the shot he took on his way to our studio which was immediately uploaded on his website has. john says his extraordinary abandonment of his own privacy stems from the ignorance of the authorities but in the fear they decided well that guy looks a little different so he must be arab and if he's arab then he must have explosives everyone knows that that's a logical operating we we realize how ridiculous that logic sounds but when your country when your own country takes that on as the basis for national policy. ignorance is the basis of national policy is a pretty scary situation. and that's how i got caught up in it for haasan piracy

has become a rally of the past and he says he's not surprised that journalists or anyone else really would use the same surveillance tactics as the state in that sense it might be of no surprise that the chief architect of the patriot act the lawyer who put it together happens to be one of murdoch's hand-picked you score board directors you served as assistant attorney general in the bush administration and was described by some as the purveyor of the most sweeping curtailment of freedom in the u.s. system across the era at a time when corporations and the government can easily hack into people's private lives it doesn't come as a surprise when for example social networks give your personal information to at companies or when other industries leave bob breaching people by the sea in the u.s. it's so widespread and people have gotten so used to it that would hurt murdoch seems to be perfect part of the system rather than some special bill and with corporation

has been undertaking some unique all lawful practices because here in america they are not so unique i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. now the operation to lift the sunken the pleasure boat belgariad russia set a republic of touch of star has run into difficulty the salvage team did manage to raise part of the ship to the surface briefly but it immediately slipped from its harness and sank into the water again the at student on the volga river happened almost two weeks ago when the pleasure boat went down in minutes stranding one hundred fourteen passengers eight people are still unaccounted for it's hoped the recovered home could still hold the missing bodies i'm a yet reveal it says to water cools off his worst waves the accident in decades the operation has been suspended as engineers rebalance the lifting. hours use tom barton reports saying you can or you can always log on. to

recover the timeline all of the tragedy and watch firsthand accounts of the survivors and take a look at how the sunken bowl garia looked to the rescue divers we have some is to see if there are of course being uploaded by all correspond on the scene. now serbia's last war crimes that gordon had it has been extradited to the hague officials in the belgrade hope his capture and extradition will clear the way to e.u. membership but as aussie sarah first reports the politicians desire to gear acceptance is not shared by the man on the street. the last of the war crimes suspects wanted by the un is heading for the hague it's seen by many as the last obstacle to serbia now gaining the membership that some skeptical that brussels will move the goalposts once again the government keeps. fulfilling new demands are coming

from brussels but people are not feeling any benefit from it there are three feeling that things are becoming worse as a result. support for you is dropping so there is a growing gap between the voting in the borders and the government that stands and it will probably continue to be an official government poll just out shows support for eighty membership among serbs at its lowest ever it's not a surprise that when portugal italy and many more countries are now struggling for the people here no longer believe that the e.u. is going to be the answer to all their problems all show. many have relatives abroad and. things are. besides. there all. this would not be successful.

but even. this is a disillusionment in serbia if the government's apparent willingness to bend over backwards to eat him on so it could be next on the ease list well another major sticking point is thought to be serbia's failure to recognize breakaway costs of a belgrade val's that will never happen despite many member states pushing for exactly that president but it insists that sebi is moral and legal obligations have now been. the song remains the same is led zeppelin's. i mean it hasn't changed hasn't changed since the why this rule. doesn't the project. the arrest warrant had it starts in a month certainly it will have a major obstacle in its way even the shit there with it seems. to. be if those it's get is part of the deal will be now he was so. great. i was serving will go to any lengths to join the. filmmaker and screen

myself but as. i think when a government says that the e.u. does not have an alternative it means that it should be attained at any cost and of course the recognition of course of all will be no exception to that even though it hasn't been said so directly by heads it has been said by lower ranking officials so i think the recognition of course will come as a next step and sadly i think. the people of serbia think they're powerless to stop that i think there are two types of people in serbia people who have illusions about the e.u. and people who are realistic about the e.u. those who have illusions about the e.u. think that the e.u. will solve all their problems most of them are hopeless to begin with and are looking for any sort of way out of their situation and they completely ignore what's happening in greece what's happening in portugal spain cetera et cetera and then there's a second group of people who i think is the majority in serbia who are real estate

who know there is no quick fix to the situation in serbia and know that joining the european union at this point would be like being on a sailboat you know on the ocean trying to board the titanic. well we're on the twenty four seven but there are always more stories to be found on our web site on t.v. dot com uses the sneak preview of what lies in store for the. show in gulfport for politicians the most go you can be a messy business especially the risk group of women who put on their high heels and very long fashion to watch dozens of russian made cars and they do it all in the name of their beloved prime minister also. amazing images of russian castles performing tricks like you've never seen before more of their fabulous air quine starts just a click away and online galleries find them at aussie dot com. now

three photojournalists accused of espionage in georgia have walked free after being convicted in court and then given suspended sentences well they initially denied accusations that they'd haul secrets about georgia's president mikheil saakashvili to russia but later signed full confessions one of them even went on a two day hunger strike and another confessed just on to his wife was released from detention well this is beyond concerns that they were coerced into admitting crimes they didn't commit is was discussed as more the leader of georgia's own position conservative party mr cathy called he joins me live from tiffany's see many thoughts of being with us here on r.t. mr carver let's talk us through the chronology of all this first was three photographers denying the charges one of them protested and went on a hunger strike and then suddenly a confession a conviction and it all ends with

a suspended sentence walk do you things happening here. is this is there to do story unfortunately in georgia and. all the you reported involved all the fates doing short investigation and this investigation had nothing with just this first of four you mentioned the all of this investigation was secret and no information was given no to maybe a no two lawyers because of the legal reasons the information about state secrets and nobody knows until now. ready today you know the reporters were already released nobody knows in the world concretely there where charged bean. is for their testimony when. themselves as. charged and

is guilty. when the only against all of the defendants against all the people who were arrested will they own testimonies and there is no right now the only in the case of the testimony of these people know any written documents no any independent witnesses no any other readers this is for on why is this people recording as you know probably second chances all these cases that probably for example one reporter reporter mr gideon is was arrested with his wife and they were brought to prison. directly from the house naked and you can imagine men where he hears. his wife from the next sale. or any charges which we have presented by the prosecutor's office as for mr rubb the lies that you mentioned

that he was hunger striking and. only after physical and psychological pressure on him. during more than one week let's talk through the accusations actually being levied against the street photography if they rule accused of passing data on george's president to intelligence say meetings activities schedules being among the secrets does not strike you society all the accusation. do know there is to. this case first political for mr starr. it is asian in in favor of russia it's the main political be ground of his donors to conform impose a because you know they just a month ago he raided the opposition mine for station in tbilisi and five people were killed and there is no any democratic process in the country but because of

the pick the fact that he's considered in the western countries is entire russian president he's never criticize like for example mr hooper shingle or any other out across dick lugar's because there is logics if his entire russian he means it for democratic so for mr saakashvili is just necessity i do know twice or maybe three or four times a yard to declare a russian aggression or a new russian occupation or russian spies etc. it is to carry a leader is for a little bit is i also mentioned conservative policy many thanks for speaking to us here at our say. well let's return now to our developing story this hour a huge bomb has exploded in the very center of norway's capital. damaging apartment

buildings including the prime minister's own face two people are reported to have been killed and at least eight injured witnesses say dozens are lying in the streets covered in blood prime minister against stockton bag is said to be safe a preliminary report suggests it was a car bomb but some sources say the explosion took place inside the building of doorways biggest tabloid newspaper the g the blast was so powerful that it is smashed all of the windows in the seventeen story building or witnesses say the nearby oil ministry building also caught fire with thick smoke being seen coming out from the blog some reports suggest the blast was followed by a second where police are evacuating surrounding buildings and searching the area for more explosives well you can always follow the developments of this story on our twitter as r.c.

on the school dot com. ok we have our top stories coming your way just a few minutes first though a business update to be true after a short break. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. you know welcome to the business update on our rupert murdoch's news corp has sold at

seventy nine percent stake in russia's biggest outdoor advertising use outdoor sells advertising on billboards public transport and other surfaces in ninety russian cities the investor and management buyout deal is said to be were three hundred fifty million dollars experts say the real value is closer to two hundred seventeen million due to company news corp has had its stake up for sale for five years after the family decided to pull out of the russian market new owners say they plan an i.p.o. to recoup their investment. and secular to the markets now crude has returned into positive territory that thousand buses are hoping for growing demand amid optimism europe and the us will be able to deal with their debt crises also international energy agency says it worked extended meanings of reserve world supplies there for light sweet is up thirty one cents brant thanks in two cents u.s. markets are trading mixed the dow jones is down due to caterpillar announcing its the second quarter profits. almost to just one million billion dollars

the share itself is down six percent this year for you from the bailout. in europe it's actually you go your way therefore let's take a look at what's happening in europe basically leaders of the e.u. how their four hundred billion euro rescue fund to buy dead of stressed euro nations this is still providing support to london which is a point four percent the dax point two percent this is to ten prevent the crisis from spreading to other members they also made detailed provisions for limiting the damage if credit rating agencies declare greek default and this is the closing picture for russia on friday and it's flat flat to positive on the r.t.s. my six is down by just a notch most investors have decided not to go ahead with buying into stocks ahead of the weekend let's take a look at some of the big movers on the my sex role snap to manage to gain to

almost two percent as oil prices still remain quite high. however the other financial stocks is down two percent is down more than one percent now no which is an interesting stock it's up one point eight percent at the close as the company's in-store in talks to purchase a twenty five percent stake in germany's largest gas importer stein from metropol i see says investors are now shifting their attention from europe to the united states. over story of positive open today basically on the back of their. euro zone package fresh a package for griese approved yesterday and today we've seen their range bound trading with an up or tran but now in the last in the market currently is looking around resolution of their debt limit crisis situation which could calm as early as this weekend and that will certainly give the markets more reason to rally that's all the business for now we will be back in fifty minutes time with an

update i'll see that. solution disciplinary punishment education. worse. could the penitentiary system transform a criminal into a law abiding citizen. and resumes life behind bars on our

t.v. . culture is that so much of a taxpayer's money i mean i didn't exist in the real mistreatment of taming the murdoch empire as the phone hacking scandal in the u.k. engulfs more victims and politicians look for cover all eyes are on the future. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are all today . in india oldies available in the movie joint the hotel rooms. the gateway hotel

the grand imperial. george weston. you can a list which will. say don't need to go publicly and run this in the county was a hotel as a retreat. itself . this is a massive explosion shots is the center of the norwegian capital all slow damaging the prime minister's headquarters police going to cause the blast which is reportedly killed two and injured at least eight. e.u. leaders agreeing on a second velshi million dollar bailout for greece fears over the union delving deeper into debt the deal clinched of the summit in brussels prompted a major u.s. credit agency to say it will downgrade the greek debt default status. and

skepticism in serbia over joining the e.u. despite officials there rest of gordon had it. to membership service last war crimes suspect is currently on route to the hague. we bring you more now on the phone hacking scandal that's hastened to add lives and all debate. he developed his guess about the if i was impact on both sides of the atlantico and the implications for the murdoch media empire that's next. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle came into murdoch empire as the phone hacking scandal in the u.k. engulfed more victims and politicians look for cover all eyes are on the future of news corp and its assets in the us and beyond has the murdoch family finally

outfoxed itself. can you. crossed out the implications of the phone hacking scandal i'm joined by kevin zeese in baltimore he's a spokesperson and lawyer for the government accountability group protect our elections and author of an open letter to the f.b.i. and s.c.c. urging them to investigate murdoch's news corporation in the us in washington we have dave south danae he is communications director for free press and in london we cross it toby young he's a journalist and author of how to lose friends and alienate people all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want kevin if i can go to you first because of your open letter here i took a look at some of the button laws and bylaws of the f.c.c. and they basically their job is to make sure how the airwaves are used and they have to ensure that they're used by people of quote good care.